Yes
But as a helper? It's terrific
epolanski on Hacker News
In the thread “Devin: AI Software Engineer”, replying to this comment
Helped: Boilerplate, complex function kickstarts, search replacement, text transformation, learning APIs, image generation, test case generation.
Got in the way: Writing anything but simple boilerplate due to nuance in products and systems.
… The promise of it writing anything but simple boilerplate, I find it ridiculous because there's way too much nuance in our products, business, devices, systems that you need to follow and work on. But as a helper? It's terrific. I'm 100% sure that people not using these tools are effectively limiting themselves and their productivity. …